BiasMedium
Google Search Reportedly Returned Fewer Results for Abortion Services in Rural Areas
- Occurred
- Feb 23, 2022
- Published
- Feb 23, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google Search reportedly returned fewer abortion clinics for searches from poorer and rural areas, particularly ones with Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Women and girls
- Women
- Women seeking abortion services
- women having unexpected or crisis pregnancies
- Pregnant women
- Pregnant individuals
- Pregnant patients
- Patients
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Search results varied by location and demographics, indicating algorithmic bias affecting access to healthcare services.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8